The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... Descartes unassisted — Purchases a Prism — Revises Dr. Barrow's Optical Lectures — Dr. Barrow's Opinion respecting Colours — Takes his Degrees — Is appointed a Fellow of Trinity College— Succeeds Dr. Barrow in the Lucasian Chair of ...
... Descartes unassisted — Purchases a Prism — Revises Dr. Barrow's Optical Lectures — Dr. Barrow's Opinion respecting Colours — Takes his Degrees — Is appointed a Fellow of Trinity College— Succeeds Dr. Barrow in the Lucasian Chair of ...
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... Descartes 's Geometry by his genius and patient application. This neglect of the elementary truths of geometry he afterwards regarded as a mistake in his mathematical studies ; and he expressed to Dr. Pemberton his regret " that he had ...
... Descartes 's Geometry by his genius and patient application. This neglect of the elementary truths of geometry he afterwards regarded as a mistake in his mathematical studies ; and he expressed to Dr. Pemberton his regret " that he had ...
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... Descartes's theory of colours ; and it is stated by Mr. Conduit, that he soon established his own views on the subject, and detected the errors in those of the French philosopher. This, however, does not seem to have been the case. Had ...
... Descartes's theory of colours ; and it is stated by Mr. Conduit, that he soon established his own views on the subject, and detected the errors in those of the French philosopher. This, however, does not seem to have been the case. Had ...
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... Descartes, in his Dioptriet, published in 1629, and more recently James Gregory, in his Optica Promota, published in 1668, had shown that parallel and diverging rays could be reflected or refracted, with mathematical accuracy, to a ...
... Descartes, in his Dioptriet, published in 1629, and more recently James Gregory, in his Optica Promota, published in 1668, had shown that parallel and diverging rays could be reflected or refracted, with mathematical accuracy, to a ...
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Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. had invented his reflecting telescope. Descartes had explained the theory, and exerted himself in perfecting the v constructing of the common refracting telescope ; and Huygens had not only executed the ...
Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. had invented his reflecting telescope. Descartes had explained the theory, and exerted himself in perfecting the v constructing of the common refracting telescope ; and Huygens had not only executed the ...
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